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改成

gǎichéng

to convert

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to convert

02

to turn into (sth else)

03

to adapt (a story to another medium)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 改成 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 改成 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我三岁的时候把名字从汤姆改成了约翰。wǒ sān suì de shí hòu bǎ míng zì cóng tāng mǔ gǎi chéng le yuē hàn。

When I was three years old, my name was changed from Tom to John.

一些操作系统上有全角字符的文件名会显示为乱码，所以下载时请改成适当的文件名。yī xiē cāo zuò xì tǒng shàng yǒu quán jiǎo zì fú de wén jiàn míng huì xiǎn shì wèi luàn mǎ， suǒ yǐ xià zài shí qǐng gǎi chéng shì dàng de wén jiàn míng。

On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename.

人们热切地寻求更有现代风格的衣服，所以把以前的旗袍改成了适合他们品位的东西。rén men rè qiè dì xún qiú gèng yǒu xiàn dài fēng gé de yī fú， suǒ yǐ bǎ yǐ qián de qí páo gǎi chéng le shì hé tā men pǐn wèi de dōng xī。

People eagerly sought a more modernised style of dress and transformed the old qipao to suit their tastes.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 改成.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 改成.

Directly before

  • 旗袍改成1
  • 时请改成1
  • 房间改成1
  • 汤姆改成1

Directly after

  • 改成了2
  • 改成适当1
  • 改成书房1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 改成

What does 改成 mean in Chinese?

改成 (gǎichéng) means to convert.

How do you pronounce 改成?

改成 is pronounced gǎichéng.

Is 改成 an HSK word?

改成 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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